Andre Ye

I am an incoming EECS PhD student at MIT working in human-AI interaction and a PD Soros Fellow.
I am completing my undergraduate at the University of Washington studying philosophy and computer science, minoring in math and history.
I want to build AI tools for thought (esp. for the textual social sciences and the public), computational models for philosophy, and AI that produces new concepts (in the form of vocabulary, metaphors, connections).
My philosophical interests include existentialist phenomenology, “pragmatist” philosophy of science, and Deleuze-like metaphysics.
Currently I am thinking about what a task is — in AI, in philosophy, in science, in political and ethical life.
Please see my research agenda, CV, and SOP for more details.
I was very fortunate to be advised by Amy Zhang, Ranjay Krishna, and Rose Novick at UW.
My email is andreye [at] uw [dot] edu
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Composite image of The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory (Dali), Edward Bellamy (GAN), Guernica (Picasso), still from Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein), Relativity (Escher).
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Apr 20, 2025 | Our paper on Agonistic Image Generation has been accepted to the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT) 2025! See you in Athens! |
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Apr 9, 2025 | I am a Paul & Daisy Soros fellow! I am very grateful to the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans for this opportunity. This was covered in a UW Undergraduate Affairs news post. |
Jun 28, 2024 | My work has been covered in an Allen School news post! |
May 14, 2024 | I am honored to have been named the UW Philosophy Department’s 2023-2024 Outstanding Undergraduate Scholar. |
Apr 7, 2024 | I presented my paper “And then the Hammer Broke: Reflections on Machine Ethics from Feminist Philosophy of Science” at the Pacific University Philosophy Conference in Forest Grove, Oregon! Read the paper on arXiv. |
